Warriors Of The Coast

[stonegod]

The hunter grumbles beneath his breath. "Skarg, Taviss, any sign of a trail again?"

OOC: More Search/Track checks.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Taviss and Skarghash spend a few minutes really looking over the small tunnel walls and floor. Suddenly Taviss calls out saying he's found something... what looks to be several blade marks at various places on the walls and floor along the length of the tunnel. These marks are not deep and are each rather short... and do not appear in any sort of regularity to indicate they are meant to be a trail to be followed. Taviss suggests that a blade of some type that was out of it's sheath and unwieldy might cause these marks.

The unfortunate part of this though, is that these marks can be found in both branches of the tunnel heading downward left and upward right and on both sides of the walls in each direction. So there's no followable "trail" to speak of.

 

[Velmont]

"Most likely, they would have explored both, and they have found a dead head first... I suggest to go up first." tells Jango.

 

[stonegod]

"Most likely, they would have explored both, and they have found a dead head first... I suggest to go up first." tells Jango.

"That just leads us to another split. Are we doing the 'go right first' rule, then?"

 

[DEFCON 1]

"I suggest to go up first."

The young elf makes a quick decision, and as the others continue checking for more blade marks... he skitters up the right-hand tunnel and shoots his lantern down both directions of the next fork.

He sees the left path stays level for several feet until it begins to slope down a bit as it turns right out of view. The right path also stays level, but about fifteen feet in the tunnel forks AGAIN into left and right directions.

 

[Velmont]

Jango returns back. "More forks, the left path over there split, but I supsect the right path to go back to the door, on the first right path. In other words, this is really a maze and it will be hard to find the path they have chosen without much more clue. Maybe the always right might be an idea to miss no fork, but if there is loops, we might even miss something."

 

[drothgery]

Khalia tries to mentally sketch out the cavern. If there were room to pull out some paper and a pen to map things properly, she'd do it, but instead...

"It seems likely that the right-hand path leads back to where the lantern was left, but I'd like to make sure of that before moving on." She says.

 

[DEFCON 1]

"It seems likely that the right-hand path leads back to where the lantern was left, but I'd like to make sure of that before moving on."

The archivist leaves the other three down where they first saw the blade marks, and joins Jango up the right-hand side slope. She turns and begins crawling down the second right-hand fork and in fifteen feet reaches the next fork in the road. She looks both to the left and the right and discovers that the right hand tunnel here DOES NOT in fact reconnect to the right fork near the opening.

She thinks about this for a moment and remembers that the original right fork sloped downward, whereas where she is now has been sloping upwards the entire time. Thus, this right hand tunnel must be ABOVE the tunnel off the very first fork. Deciding to check out her hypothesis, she moves down the right hand tunnel and it begins bending around to the left. She then sees that it starts sloping downward here, and then forks one more time fifteen feet ahead... the left fork still sloping downward, the right fork sloping upward again. Up and down, left and right... this tunnel system is enough to drive you batty. Khalia crawls back to Jango, and the two of them crawl back to where they can see Ari, Taviss, and Skarghash.

 

[stonegod]

"We could spend a lifetime down here. We need a structured way to do this. Lets do the left/right always thing, but only if Taviss and Skarg find evidence that there was passage that way. Sound fine?"

 

[Velmont]

Jango nods. "If we find no more clue, let's start by the left, as we have found the lantern in the left passage." (OOC: Maybe one last search by Taviss/Skrag)